Greenland

then abandoned and people fled to the countryside because of the many violent attacks on the cities. The Magyars, who came from mainly the Hungarian Plains, the Muslims, who came from the Middle East and North Africa, and the Vikings who came from Greenland and Iceland tore throughout Europe and its cities and looted them. While Europe was divided…

How is the Aurora Borealis formed?I have wondered this for a while because they're so pretty and unique.Well I've done a lot of research and have found out its because of the sun and the Earth’s magnetic field. The Northern Lights,Aurora Borealis, Aurora Australis,or Southern Lights are formed when storms on the sun form solar winds, also know as large streams of charged particles streaming toward the Earth.The excited atoms reach the Earth's atmosphere and produce heat which gives us light…

Ocean is the largest Oceans. It covers 30% of the Earth’s surface, it is located at 8.9° S, 124.6° W. The Atlantic, Arctic, Indian, and Southern are the other 4 Major Oceans of the World. The Atlantic ocean is the second largest ocean in the World. Greenland, The World’s largest island, is located in the Atlantic ocean. The Arctic ocean is near the North pole, Many polar bears live on the Arctic ice. The Indian Ocean is located near Africa. It is the largest breeding ground for the humpback…

Have you ever gone on a vacation and had to travel across the country? That 4-5 hour plane ride seems to last an eternity. Ugh, 5 hours without wifi?! Fyodor Konyukhov laughs at your despair, for he just completed a journey far greater. Sandman Mike Aboard the anything but luxurious Turgoyak, Fyodor departed on his adventure from the Chilean port of Concon on December 22,2013, heading for Australia’s Brisbane. 160 days later he had covered a distance of 9,300 nautical miles to his destination…

He was born in Norway but raised in Iceland. He sailed west from the Snaefellsnes Peninsula with a crew in 982 and found Gunnbjorn’s islands. He then landed on and explored Greenland, which he named to make it sound nice and encourage settlement, for it was really covered in ice. Henry Hudson: Hudson was an (yet another) English explorer who lived from 1565 to 1611 and explored in the early 1600s before his death. He had two…

In 1607 I made my first voyage for the English Muscovy Company, in an effort to find an ice free passage through the North Pole to China and Japan. Although my crew and I had to make our way back to Europe after our ship was not able to get past Greenland, because of all the ice, this expedition, however, did provide a reliable view of this part of the world that has not yet been properly explored. It is because of this adventure, that the world found out about the Arctic Circle and the whales…

The Cthulhu Mythos manifested first with Lovecraft in his short story ‘The Call of Cthulhu’, published in 1928.(24) The ‘heroes’ of the story, at least to the followers of the cult, are the Great Old Ones whose earthly followers might evoke them from extraterrestrial dimensions when astral alignments are right. Their followers were, from Lovecraft’s description, the most degraded dregs of the Earth: They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and…

and have many differences. Egypt is like a huge desert with the Nile River flowing from the south of Egypt to the north of Egypt. Egypt is the place to go if you want to see a pyramid up close in person. Australia on the other hand has a lot of greenland and a few trees here and there. Australia is a continent with the Murray-Darling River flowing through the south to the South Pacific Ocean. If you decide to visit Australia and you enjoy opera, The Sydney Opera House is a great spot to check…

Rollo died in 918. Erik The Red founded the first norse settlement in Greenland. Leif Eriksson was the first viking to make it to the new world. He beat Columbus by 500 years. Harold Handrona was the last great viking leader. The Vikings weren't an organised group. The first Viking raid was in britain Ad 793 and last in 1066…

Over the past century, our global temperature is increasing at an astonishing rate. Resources, such as lumber, and fossil fuels are overly exploited for industrial expansion, by which enlarge the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gas, which can intensify the greenhouse effect. Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide and other Greenhouse gases can trap infrared radiation emitted from our Sun and store it in our atmosphere. Greenhouse gases are not all bad, in fact it 's essential for us to…